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Plastic Flamingo

Lawn ornaments have been around for many years. The most famous of them all is the plastic flamingo. But where did this trend come from?

The plastic flamingo was created in 1957 by Don Featherstone. The plastic flamingo has become one of the world’s largest icons of pop culture. This creation won Don Featherstone and IG Nobel Prize for art in 1996.

The originals were always sold in pairs, one of which had its head upright, while the other had its head down to the ground as if it were feeding.

Once as a prank, a slope on the University of Wisconsin’s campus was covered with well over a 1000 of these birds.

These birds have become so popular that Madison Wisconsin has the plastic flamingo as its official bird.